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Abstract
Abstract: We conducted interview via email with nine college students from rural areas. Data about their adaptation to college life was collected. We found that they did not adapt well and how distress, confusion, anxiety, resentment, and uneasiness in colleges.
Notes
Dr. Chen Xiangming believes that so-called “qualitative research” is different from the “dingxing yanjiu” often mentioned now in China, in that it is an activity that uses the researcher him/herself as a research tool, performs a comprehensive exploration of sociological phenomena using various methods of data collection in a natural environment, uses induction to analyze the data and form theories, and obtains interpretive understandings formed through interactions with the targets of the makeup of their behaviors and significance. For more details see Chen (Citation2004).
Purposeful sampling is using the people, places, and events that can provide the greatest amount of information for the problem being studied (Patton Citation1990).
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Notes on contributors
Zhang Yiquan
Zhang Yiquan is a teaching assistant at Hohai University.
Wang Yijie
Wang Yijie is a professor in the Department of Sociology, Hohai University.